Beren and Lúthien is a fitting finale to Tolkien’s posthumous publications

“The most obvious appeal is also of the book is perhaps also its deepest: ‘there was sorrow then too, and gathering dark, but great valour, and great deeds not wholly vain.'”

Wonder Woman is Wonderfully Misanthropic

Trading the fully feminst Diana of the comics for a demi-divine intercesor was the right move for the movie adaptationof the character

The Hub City Review is on Temporary Hiatus

I’m taking some much needed time off, with the hopes of coming back reinvigorated and ready to write more of the best reviews anywhere online.

Beauty and the Beast is the Best Version of a Tale as Old as Time

Though the perfectly paced plot and sonorous score are lifted directly out of its animated antecedent, this live-action adaptation takes liberties with many of the finer details and achieves an even greater depth than its cartoon counterpart, improving upon perfection.

Colin Was Right: How the Enthusiast Press is Lessened by the Loss of Mr. Moriarty

Colin was the paragon of civility in discourse, demonstrating boldness in his beliefs, genuine curiosity of others’, intellectual honesty in all ideas, openness to persuasion, patience with those he did disagree with, and unreserved friendship for individuals of any political persuasion.

Kong: Skull Island is Apocalypse Now meets Moby Dick

If all of Univarsal’s monster movies are up to the same caliber as Skull Island, they’ll rank right alongside Marvel as a cinematic universe whose every entry is a must-see.

“Logan” is the best there is at what it does

Logan is not about him saving a child – it’s about Logan saving himself by opening his long-hardened heart to her, his emotional scars being the one wound his healing factor could never mend.

Superman #18

Much more than Kryptonite, clinging so closely to the past is what’s really weakening the Man of Tomorrow.

Justice League of America #1

Orlando, through Batman, is saying members of diverse demographics “need to see heroes are [Asian, black, female, gay, etc]. Like them. That they can be heroes.”

Bloodborne and “Round the Bend”: On Difficulty Levels in Games and Literature

Just as a player might have to master a new skill in a Souls game to progress through a level, readers must learn a new set of skills to progress through the “Round the Bend” chapter of Moore’s Jerusalem.